Software Development Engineer- Student

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About the Team

Workday, founded in 2005, stands as a groundbreaking force in the human capital and financial management industry, with a global presence and a diverse array of customers. Across our offices worldwide, our teams are united by a shared dedication to innovation, collaboration, and excellence!

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard and we're serious about what we do, but we like to have a good time too. In fact, one of our core values is fun!!

Workday Student is part of Workday's suite of cloud-based enterprise solutions. The team’s core mission is to improve the work day for Higher Education administrators and faculty through greater technical capability, while empowering students on their educational journeys.

We are looking to hire Software Development engineers for our Higher Education team (Workday Student Product - Prospective Student & Student Financial Aid).

The Prospective Student team is responsible for various crucial aspects of Student product including student recruitment process, providing highly configurable online applications capabilities to Institutions, supporting processes related to lifecycle of student before matriculation. On this team, you'll experience designing new features and finding elegant solutions to challenging problems, while operating in an Agile environment.

The Student Financial Aid
The Financial Aid team provides a comprehensive financial aid solution for students. We are a highly collaborative team that handles areas of financial aid such as federal and alternative loans, disbursement, and packaging awards. We follow agile practices and prioritize clean, maintainable code, open communication, and continuous improvement. Everyone on the team has a voice in architecture and product decisions, and we foster a culture where all voices are valued.

About the Role

• You will join a great team of developers who are committed and proud of delivering high class customer solutions. 

• This role involves working closely with software engineers, Product Managers and QA engineers to implement creative solutions for complex use case requirements requested by various size colleges and universities.

• You will help drive the implementation of new features in either React and/or Xpresso (XO) and support existing products. 

• You will also contribute to debug and solve any customer support cases to ensure we provide high customer satisfaction.

• You will contribute ideas for continually improving the team's efficiency, job satisfaction, and code quality.

• Build and maintain robust, efficient and maintainable code using an object-oriented framework and class modeling 

• You should be passionate about customer experience and building the right product.

About You

Basic Qualifications 

• 5+ years experience with object modeling, applica